Keith's Prescription for Prosperityhttps://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com
Creating a New Lifestyle of Prosperity One Day at a TimeThu, 24 May 2018 08:10:28 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.com/https://secure.gravatar.com/blavatar/65993a26a6e42576f4338b64a5d48534?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fs0.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.pngKeith's Prescription for Prosperityhttps://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com
10 Rules for Success https://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/2017/08/05/10-rules-for-success/
https://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/2017/08/05/10-rules-for-success/#respondSun, 06 Aug 2017 02:39:11 +0000http://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/2017/08/05/10-rules-for-success/The Profit’s (Marcus Lemonis) top 10 Rules for Success.
1. Don’t be an ass.

2. Make your employees number one.

3. Know what you don’t know.

4. Accept the crazy.

5. Be vulnerable.

6. Be authentic.

7. Be transparent.

8. It’s all about follow-through.

9. Know your numbers.

10. Quit whining, start winning.

]]>https://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/2017/08/05/10-rules-for-success/feed/0masterkeyabellOne of the Greatest Ironies – Post 491https://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/post-491/
https://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/post-491/#respondMon, 19 Jun 2017 12:09:53 +0000http://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/?p=329More One of the Greatest Ironies – Post 491]]>One of the greatest ironies of life is the fact that winners fail more often than losers. The fact is, most people spend their lives doing everything within their power to seek success while simultaneously doing everything in their power to avoid failure. That is a recipe that virtually ensures average performance.

Consider Thomas Edison, it was his one thousandth try before he created a working light bulb. Now you and I might say that he failed 999 times but when he was asked how he felt about failing 999 times he replied that he didn’t fail 999 times. He said that he discovered 999 ways to NOT make a light bulb.

Look at Colonel Sanders as another example. He heard 1009 “no’s” before he heard his first yes. He was turned down one thousand and nine times before his chicken recipe was accepted. He knew what he wanted to achieve. He knew his recipe was good and he took action. He didn’t see it as 1009 failures he saw it as 1009 fools that didn’t comprehend what it was that he had.

Think about this, as a kid we weren’t fazed at all when we heard the word no. We shrugged it off. We laughed at it. We flicked it away like a bug. We took it as a challenge. Somewhere along the line this natural tenacity was lost or even drummed out of us. What if we could get that tenacity back?

Consider this story, a Zen master and his student in search of knowledge where talking. The Zen master is pouring a cup of tea while listening to his student. The student is going on and on about everything he has learned when the student notices that the Zen master has not only filled his cup to the brim but was allowing it to overflow all over the table. The student then asks, “Zen master, can’t you see the cup is overflowing?”

The Zen master replies, “You are like the cup, full to the top with what you already know. To learn something new, one must first be willing to empty their cup.”

What if, starting today, you can get that tenacity back?

What if, starting today, the word no stopped stopping you?
What if, starting today, every time you heard the work no you became stronger? More powerful? More resilient?

And what if – in fact – having people tell you no actually became fun?

It’s time to empty that cup of tea, that fear of failure and accept the no’s because right around the corner is a yes that you would have never heard because you were afraid of the word no.

]]>https://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/post-491/feed/0masterkeyabellAim at Nothing, You Will Hit It! – Post 490https://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/2017/04/08/aim-at-nothing-you-will-hit-it-post-490/
https://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/2017/04/08/aim-at-nothing-you-will-hit-it-post-490/#respondSat, 08 Apr 2017 20:52:12 +0000http://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/?p=320Zig Zigglar once said that if you aim at nothing you will hit it.

]]>https://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/tgif-post-496/feed/0masterkeyabellChoose Your Hard – Post 487https://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/choose-your-hard-post-487/
https://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/choose-your-hard-post-487/#respondTue, 28 Mar 2017 10:23:45 +0000http://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/?p=306Being poor is hard,
Being rich is hard
Being married is hard
Being single is hard
Working out is hard
Being overweight is hard

]]>https://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/choose-your-hard-post-487/feed/0masterkeyabellAim at Nothing You Will Hit It – Post 486https://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/aim-at-nothing-you-will-hit-it-post-486/
https://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/aim-at-nothing-you-will-hit-it-post-486/#respondMon, 13 Mar 2017 07:40:35 +0000http://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/?p=302More Aim at Nothing You Will Hit It – Post 486]]>Zig Ziglar once said, “If you aim at nothing you will hit it every time.”

I know I have spoken often of the necessity of having goals, or targets to shoot for in
life but it hasn’t always been something that I have done. For the majority of my life, and I am sure it is true for most of you as well, for the majority of my life I have just cruised along. Sure I have had dreams along the way and I have actually set short term goals and met them but for most of my life I never really set a life target to reach.

The sad thing about that is, now that I am in the later half of my 50’s I spend a lot of time looking at where I could have been at this point in my life had I just made some definite life goals in the past. I could have done and could have been so much more than I am right now.

Don’t get me wrong. Compared to most of the folks that I know I have accomplished more in my life than I ever could have imagined back when I was 18 or 22 years old. I thank God and my wife for that. Even though for the majority of my life I just kind of coasted through, there have been several points in my life where together we set some targets, some short term goals, and together we did what was necessary to hit them.

When I reflect on life now I can’t help to look at some of the folks around me and where they are and the regrets they have. Something I don’t want to be doing when I am in my 70’s, 80’s or 90’s.

One gentleman I know is now in his late 70’s. He is so beat down by a life of coasting that he spends his days now in regret. For the most part he spends his day numbing his mind watching endless game-shows and 70’s and 80’s sitcom reruns on TV. When I sit with him he is always telling me stories about when he was young and had his business and the things he did. Even though he wasn’t making a killing back then he was excited about his life.

At some point after starting a family he decided to choose the “safe life.” He began working for, what was at that time one of the most successful companies in Chicago. Now don’t get me wrong, he made a good salary during that time and he provided well for his family. They took vacations, the kids all went to private schools, he provided well for them. However by the time the last kid was out of school he found himself out of work because that big fortune 50 company was starting to go through some very hard times and began replacing their older, loyal workforce with younger folks that were willing to do the same jobs at nearly minimum wage.

Sound familiar? How many times have we heard that story in recent years?

He spent 20 or so years working on someone else’s goals. Someone else’s dreams. When he lost that job he lost the only life he had known for so long. He had coasted through life. He was a puppet with puppeteer controlling his strings. He never made any goals to create other sources of income just in case things changed on his career path along the way.

My life wasn’t much different.

When I was in high school I had no idea what I wanted to do after I got out. The world at the time was telling us to follow the 40 year plan. To go to college and get a degree. Then find a job in a fortune 500 company and put in 40 years then retire on a pension. A pension that as we know now would only pay 40 to 60 percent of what you were making while working. 40 to 60 percent of an income that you were barely making ends meet on while you were working. Anyway I digress.

For me I was fortunate enough to have a job at a fortune 50 company before I even graduated high school. I was set, so I thought. A few years into that job I lost my job during a corporate realignment and downsize.

At that time unemployment was sky high. Without a college degree no one was hiring. I still had no idea what type of “degree” path to follow so instead I decided to go into business for myself. I set a short term goal for the first time in my life and I stuck with that goal. I got my Health, Life, Property and Casualty insurance licenses so I could sell those products. I got my Series 6 and 63 securities license to sell mutual funds and variable annuities and variable insurance products. Then I went into the financial services business.

I stayed in the business for a few years but I failed miserably. I didn’t know it then but I do now, had I set additional goals and found a mentor to show me the ends and outs of that business I believe I would have succeeded but I didn’t so I didn’t succeed. Without a goal to work toward I failed.

That’s when I decided that maybe everyone was right and I needed to go back to school and pursue the 40 year plan. I researched the best paying fields and what the educational requirements were to get into those fields and decided the on field that had the biggest potential for financial success that could be achieved in the shortest amount of time possible, I had young kids after all and I didn’t want to be in school their entire young life, so I chose pharmacy. If I really worked hard and took the highest load of classes possible I could get out in 5, 6 years tops. So once again I set a goal to become a pharmacist. This time I researched it. I sought out the advice of others in the field. I set goals. I put a plan in writing and I achieved it.

Once I reached that goal and after being introduced to Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University, my wife and I set a second goal. To become debt free. We laid out a plan which included picking up as many extra shifts as possible to follow Dave’s Debt Snowball. As we were pursuing that goal we revised it a few times to include private education for the kids and to build a dream home. We stuck to it and we were successful. We accomplished all the goals we set out for us.

We then set one more goal, to fully fund our retirement so we would have a secure future. There was one thing wrong with that goal however just like the others. It depended too much on my pharmacy career. We never made any goals outside of me working in pharmacy. No goals to develop other sources of income just in case.

Don’t get me wrong, pharmacy has done well for my family. However, just like that other gentleman I mentioned before we never made career goals beyond becoming a pharmacist. I just coasted along in my job. And as I have mentioned in the past posts, in 2011, three weeks before Christmas, I was replaced in my pharmacy manager position with a new graduate that held a higher degree than me and was willing to work for 20 grand less than I had been making. I found myself unemployed.

I hadn’t made any career goals. I aimed at nothing and achieved it. Because my credentials were outdated it took me two years to find another job in the pharmacy field. Fortunately someone was willing to look at the year of experience that I had as being equivalent to those higher degrees and they hired me.

So what is the point to all this rambling on?

The point is, is it is not too late. Yeah I’m in the latter half of my 50’s and I have wasted a lot of my life but there are still a lot of years ahead of me. I can either sit here and lick my wounds about what woulda-coulda-shoulda happened in my life like the gentleman I was telling you about or I can set some new goals, develop a plan of action and start down that path. And that is exactly what I am doing and no matter what your age is you should do it also.

That’s the first step. That’s always been the first step. It is still the first step.

Until you know why you’re doing the business, the how doesn’t matter. You have to take the time to ask, “OK, what do I want to accomplish from this business?” You have to decide.

If you don’t know why, then you can’t just do it because it looked like a good opportunity. or “Well, you know I just think you know maybe I can make some money here.”

Guess what?

You aren’t going to make it. If you don’t know why the how doesn’t matter.

When I got involved in the business I had three goals that compelled me. Number one was I wanted to save my home, the dream home that I built with my own blood sweat and tears from being sold or foreclosed on while I was unemployed. Number two, my Malibu was on its last leg and I needed a new car. Number three, I needed to finish paying for my youngest son’s private school tuition.

That’s why I got started in this business.

Now my goals of course have changed since then because I was able to accomplished all three of those with the help of this business. But those were the first goals.

We teach people when you first get in, take some time to click on the 20 Reasons – Top 3 form and print it out. You go and you sit down with your spouse and you decide, “OK, what do we really want to accomplish from this business?”

Until you have that and it is inside of you, you will not make it. You will fail.

Fill out that form, scan it into your computer or take a picture of it with your phone then send it to your sponsor and send it to your other up-line leaders as well. Fill it out and print it out. Print multiple copies. Put copies on your bathroom mirror, in your car, and wherever else you will see them throughout your day.

You hear what I’m saying?

This is not optional folks.

This is not, “well Keith I’ll show you. I already know what I want. It’s in my head already.”

Go ahead dummy.

“Well Keith I have my reasons right here, I know why.”

This is step one. It’s always been step one. It will always be step one. Fifteen years ago this was step 1. It’s step one now. It will always step one. It doesn’t change.

You can not go to second base or third base until you go to first.

Get it on paper.

Give me or whoever your upline sponsor is a copy and then we can move forward. Personally, if my team members aren’t willing to do this part then they don’t deserve my help. They aren’t going to stay in the business long enough to garner my assistance and my time.

Until you have done that, I don’t have anything to tell you.

I have nothing else to say.

I have no training.

I have no time for you.

I’m not going to give you one minute on the phone. I can’t.

And its not that I am trying to be hard.

Look, you’ve got to know why you’re doing it. Until you know why, the how doesn’t matter. That is going to be what drives you because I wanted to quit everyday my first three or four years but if I quit I would have lost my house. I would never have my Cadillac. My son wouldn’t have graduated from the school he graduated from and I would have to spend the rest of my life building somebody else’s dream.

So when I would run into the negative, like we all do, I would sit down look at that “why” and say, “Do you really want this?”

Will you let somebody else steal your dream?

I’m telling you folks, if you don’t know why and if your people don’t know why, they will never do the business.

They will not do the business.

I just talk sometimes until I’m blue in the face.

You know what? I will probably, hopefully, thirty years from now, I’ll still be talking until I’m blue in the face.

Hopefully.

Carry the three reasons with you everywhere.

So that’s the first step, so when you bring people in, first step, Define Your Dreams. Until you know why the how doesn’t matter.

We’re taught all of our life to go to school, get a good education, go to work for a good company. The reality is that that’s not how you create wealth.

It’s about self education.
Jim Rohn once said, “Formal education will make you a living. If you become self educated you can create a fortune.”
Over the years I have attend a lot of different seminars. I’ve met a lot different people that have done extremely well and have become financially independent in different niches in all types of different markets and the only thing they have in common is that they became personally educated and not just formally educated.
Over the past year I’ve met more than a dozen people that we’re all making over $1,000,000 and I was just trying to define, what’s the common denominator?
Here’s what I think the number one thing in common was. The people that made it had reasons for making it. Strong driving reasons. But the other thing that I found just as fascinating was that of the ones that had a college degree, none of them were making their fortune in the field that they had studied in college.
Whether they went to school or not, every one of them realized that you have to do something different. You have to pay a price maybe, that society doesn’t tell you that you have to pay.
There’s a lot of people that go to school, get a good education, go to work for a good company and they have this attitude of entitlement. “I did what society told me to do now I’m entitled to make a good living and where’s my money?”
That was me. I worked my tale of to put myself through college to become a pharmacist. That was my attitude afterward. It wasn’t until I lost it and was not able to find permanent employment for two years that I realized that success, financial freedom, was up to me and not to my job or my degree.
I’ve heard it said that all the “A” student’s end up working for the “C” students and it’s really true. Over my lifetime the people who have had the most success hired people to work for them that were all sharper than they were. The people that they hired all had skill sets that they didn’t have themselves. They hired a lot of people, highly intelligent people to work for them. Really highly intelligent people that were “A” student’s who ended up working for them.
During the world war, a Chicago newspaper published certain editorials in which, among other statements, said Henry Ford was “an ignorant pacifist.” Mr. Ford objected to the statements, and sued the paper for libeling him. When the suit was tried in the Courts, the attorneys for the paper placed Mr. Ford, himself, on the witness stand so he could prove to the jury that he was ignorant. The attorneys asked Mr. Ford many questions, all of them intended to prove, by Mr Ford’s own words, that, while he might have considerable specialized knowledge relating to manufacturing automobiles, overall he was ignorant.
He was asked questions like, “Who was Benedict Arnold?” and “How many soldiers did the British send over to America to put down the Rebellion of 1776?”
In answer to the last question, Mr. Ford replied, “I do not know the exact number of soldiers the British sent over, but I have heard that it was a considerably larger number than ever went back to England.”
Finally, Mr. Ford got tired of the questions, and in reply to a particularly offensive question, he leaned over, pointed his finger at the lawyer who had asked the question, and said, “If I should really WANT to answer the foolish question you have just asked, or any of the other questions you have been asking me, let me remind you that I have a row of electric push-buttons on my desk, and by pushing the right button, I can summon to my aid men who can answer ANY question I desire. Now, will you kindly tell me, WHY I should clutter up my mind with general knowledge, for the purpose of being able to answer questions, when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I require?”
There’s a lot of good logic in that reply.
That answer floored the lawyer. Every person in the courtroom realized it was not the answer of an ignorant man. Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.
Through the assistance of his “Master Mind” group, Henry Ford had at his command, all the specialized knowledge he needed to enable him to become one of the wealthiest men in America. It was not essential that he had this knowledge in his own mind.
I don’t care what society has told you. Formal education makes you a living. If you become self educated in the right industry at the right time you can create a fortune.
You can create a fortune here and it’s not difficult. Just do simple things over and over and over and over and teach others to do the same.
I ask you, “do you want to fail or do you want to succeed?”

]]>https://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/2016/06/20/success-is-about-self-education-post-484/feed/0masterkeyabell6 Steps to Turn Dreams to Reality – Post 483https://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/2015/11/25/6-steps-to-turn-dreams-to-reality-post-483/
https://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/2015/11/25/6-steps-to-turn-dreams-to-reality-post-483/#respondWed, 25 Nov 2015 17:15:01 +0000http://masterkeyabell.wordpress.com/?p=284More 6 Steps to Turn Dreams to Reality – Post 483]]>When the movie “The Secret” first came out many people that watched were under the impression that to achieve whatever one wanted in life all one had to do was want it and success would come. Quickly, however, they learned that it doesn’t quite work that way. Yes, putting the thought out into the universe is the first step but one must also take actions toward achieving what one desires. We all know that wishing for financial success does not create success. If it did the world would be full of millionaires after all how many times have we purchased a lottery ticket then dreamed about what we would do if we won?

Wishing will not bring financial security or success in any endever. But desire with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to achieve then backing those plans with persistence does not recognize failure.

I want to share with you six steps where if you truly desire financial security or any other type of success so much that your desire becomes an obsession, you will have no difficulty convincing yourself that you will acquire it. A mental consciousness that the mind has become so thoroughly saturated with the desire that desire that you can see yourself already in possession of it. These steps are not only essential for achieving financial security but are necessary for the achievement of any definite goal.

The successful application of these six steps do call for sufficient imagination so you can see and understand that success cannot be left to chance, good fortune, and luck. Everyone that has had success in life first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring and planning before success came to them.

Every great leader from the dawn of civilization to the present day was a dreamer. If success was not first in your imagination it will never be manifest in your life.

Folks, before I share these six steps I just want to say that never before in the history of America has there been so great an opportunity for practical dreamers as exists right now. The six or so years of economic downturn that we have experienced has reduced everyone to essentially to the same level and a new race is about to be run. The stakes represent huge fortunes which will be accumulated in the next ten years. The rules of the race have changed because we now live in a world that has changed and favors the masses. Those who had little or no opportunity to win under the conditions that existed in the past where fear paralyzed growth and development. Where jobs vanished, where real-estate lost massive value and savings where wiped out for survival.

Those of us in this race are encouraged to know that this changed world is demanding new ideas, new ways of doing things, new leaders, new inventions, new methods of teaching, new methods of marketing, new ideas for moving forward. At the forefront of all this demand for new and better things, there is one quality which you must possess to win the race. That is a definiteness of purpose. The knowledge of what wants to achieve and the burning desire to achieve it.

This economic downturn marked the death of one age and the birth of another. It requires practical dreamers who can and will put their dreams in action. Those dreamers have and always will be the ones the lead us to new frontiers that we never imagined could exist under the old age.

Just think of the real leaders of the world in the past. They harnessed and put into practical use the intangible unseen forces of the unborn opportunities of their dreams and converted those forces into sky-scrapers, cities, factories, automobiles, technologies of every form that makes life more pleasant for us today.

Open mindedness is a necessity today. If you are afraid of new ideas then you are doomed before you start. Never has there been a time more favorable for pioneers than now.

In your quest to achieve success don’t let anyone stifle your dreams. To win big in this new world you have to catch the spirit of the pioneers that built this country. Their dreams have given us everything of value to us today. Their dreams are now the lifeblood of our country and now give us the opportunity to develop and market our talents and abilities.

Columbus dreamed of a new world and staked his life on it.

Henry Ford dreamed of a horseless carriage and went to work with the tools and abilities that he possessed and has now put more vehicles into operation than any man who had ever lived. Because he was not afraid to back his dreams.

Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated on electricity. He put his dreams into action and even though he failed 10,000 times he stuck with his dreams until he achieved success.

I want you to really think about Marconi. Marconi dreamed of a way to use the intangible forces of the ether. The evidence of his success can be found in every wireless device today. His friends had him arrested and taken to a mental hospital when he told them that he had discovered a way to send messages through the air without using wires like the telegraph used or without any other direct physical means of communication. We couldn’t function today had it not been for his dreams.

“The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.”

So what are the six steps that I mentioned before that can transmute your desire for financial security into it’s physical equivalent? Like I mentioned these steps can be used for whatever goals you want to achieve but I’m going to put them into terms regarding financial security.

Step 1: You have to fix into your mind the exact amount of money you desire for financial success. It’s not good enough to just say “I want financial success.” You must be definite about the amount you desire.

Step 2: Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire. This is where the law of attraction failed people that saw the movie the Secret. There is no such thing as something for nothing.

Step 3: Establish a definite date when you expect to possess the money you desire for financial security.

Step 4: Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready to put the plan into action or not.

Step 5: Write out a clear, concise statement of the amount of money you desire to acquire, name the time limit for acquiring it, state what you intend to give in return for the money, and describe clearly the plan you will use to accumulate it.

Step 6: Read your written statement out loud twice each day. Once before you go to bed at night and once when you first wake up in the morning. As you read it, see and feel and believe yourself already in possession of the money.

It is important that you follow these steps exactly. It is especially important that you observe the last step. You might complain that you can’t see yourself actually in possession of the money before you actually have it. If you truly DESIRE it so much that you desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty convincing yourself that you will have it.

You dreamers of the world, it’s time to wake up and assert yourself. The economic downturn has brought the opportunity you have been waiting for. It has taught people humility and open-mindedness. The world is filled with abundance of opportunities that the dreamers of the past never knew.

A burning desire to be, and to do is the starting point from which the dreamer must begin. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness or lack of ambition.

You have been disappointed and have undergone defeat during the economic downturn. You have felt the great heart within you crushed until it bled. Remember that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start and pass through many heartbreaking strategies before they “arrive.” The turning point of those who succeed come at the moment of some crisis through which they are introduced to their other selves.

Remember, Thomas Edison was a telegraph operator that failed many times before being driven to success. Charles Dickens pasted labels on pots. Helen Keller was deaf, mute, and blind. Booker T Washington was born in slavery.

Kindle in your mind the fire of hope, faith, and courage. If you have these states of mind and you apply the six steps I described then everything that you need will come to you when you are ready for it. There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it. You are not ready for anything until you believe you can acquire it. No more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity than is required to accept misery and poverty.